ITGreen:Oh God, I hated the "yip yip martians." The rest of the list is a stretch though.

I love the yip-yips, they're funny...

As for the rest of the list, it pretty much sucks. Gonzo, Sweetums, Swedish Chef, they aren't "terrifying". Hell, Sweetums is one of my faves. When he showed up on The Muppets, I knew the movie was going to turn out OK... He and Beaker are two sides of the same coin. He's big and a little timid. Beaker is small and quite brave.

I have this distinct memory of hiding around the corner while something I'd describe as "bizarro Snuffleuppagus" being on-screen. I've never seen a photo or reference since but I *so* remember this from early childhood.

faerniir:Sweetums is my favorite muppet and has been for a long time. He's not scary, just misunderstood. Poor guy.

See my post upthread, he's the other side of the same coin as Beaker. He's big but timid, Beaker is small and brave, considering he keeps taking it on the chin for that psycho Honeydew, not that Bunsen belongs on the list, mind you.

I love the Yip-Yips! I thought they were funny when I was a kid. And I'll allow Swedish Chef, only because I find his human hands somewhat troubling. I understand the necessity of it, it's just still... troubling.

I'm a computer tech for a school district. A lot of times after lengthy breaks, we'll get calls about sound not working on the PCs (due to janitors disconnecting and moving everything so they can clean carpets etc). I'll go to the classroom, fire up the Yip Yip video on Youtube and let it run as I reconnect everything. That way I don't have to constantly go back to the PC and play a wav file to see if the sound is working. Every single time the kids will quiet down and watch the vid on the projector screen. I have never heard any kid claim they were scared.

Mikey1969:faerniir: Sweetums is my favorite muppet and has been for a long time. He's not scary, just misunderstood. Poor guy.

See my post upthread, he's the other side of the same coin as Beaker. He's big but timid, Beaker is small and brave, considering he keeps taking it on the chin for that psycho Honeydew, not that Bunsen belongs on the list, mind you.

Right. Also: his name is Sweetums, and that makes him awesome since it's actually an appropriate name. "Peaches" would have also been acceptable.

Uncle Deadly freaked me out a bit as a kid, but that was the point. A variety show with stuff for adults AND kids. Much like the Animaniacs realized later on. You have stuff for BOTH audiences. That's how you hook folks. And entertain families.

Wiki: "Creator Joss Whedon is the son of former Muppet writer Tom Whedon; several puppeteers from The Jim Henson Company were involved in the episode, including Alice Dinnean-Vernon, Leslie Carrara, Victor Yerrid, Julianne Buescher, Tim Blaney, and Drew Massey."

Fano:ITGreen: Oh God, I hated the "yip yip martians." The rest of the list is a stretch though.

The list seems to be "the muppets we could think of that weren't Kermit."

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"60 seconds to midnight, 60 seconds to EAT CEILING!"

That's not a muppet.

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I can understand why some of those B-list muppets on the list were creepy. There's a reason why they weren't A-listers, after all. But I have the yip-yips as the ringtone on my cellular telephoooooooone and it's frickin' awesome.

Elmo should've been on the list, though. He creeps me the fark out, and he stole Grover's spotlight. And I used to be mildly disturbed by the muppets that danced around in music segments by taking their heads off and passing them around like basketballs.

HotWingAgenda:Fano: ITGreen: Oh God, I hated the "yip yip martians." The rest of the list is a stretch though.

The list seems to be "the muppets we could think of that weren't Kermit."

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"60 seconds to midnight, 60 seconds to EAT CEILING!"

That's not a muppet.

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I can understand why some of those B-list muppets on the list were creepy. There's a reason why they weren't A-listers, after all. But I have the yip-yips as the ringtone on my cellular telephoooooooone and it's frickin' awesome.

Elmo should've been on the list, though. He creeps me the fark out, and he stole Grover's spotlight. And I used to be mildly disturbed by the muppets that danced around in music segments by taking their heads off and passing them around like basketballs.

The yip yips, janice, beaker(not Dr bunsen), gonzo and sweetums are among my favorites. I like to bug my kids by doing a yip yip impersonation. I liked Janice because being born in the 1970's I saw several women that looked like that. She was part of a band and she was the one picked for this list. Animal's first appearance was by far creepier.

hubiestubert:Uncle Deadly freaked me out a bit as a kid, but that was the point. A variety show with stuff for adults AND kids. Much like the Animaniacs realized later on. You have stuff for BOTH audiences. That's how you hook folks. And entertain families.

Our Dear Author is a Sally...

You might want to look up Rocky and Bullwinkle. There were doing it way before. Also Looney Tunes. Back in the day they were written for both to enjoy.

HotWingAgenda:Fano: ITGreen: Oh God, I hated the "yip yip martians." The rest of the list is a stretch though.

The list seems to be "the muppets we could think of that weren't Kermit."

[content6.flixster.com image 246x270]

"60 seconds to midnight, 60 seconds to EAT CEILING!"

That's not a muppet.

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I can understand why some of those B-list muppets on the list were creepy. There's a reason why they weren't A-listers, after all. But I have the yip-yips as the ringtone on my cellular telephoooooooone and it's frickin' awesome.

Elmo should've been on the list, though. He creeps me the fark out, and he stole Grover's spotlight. And I used to be mildly disturbed by the muppets that danced around in music segments by taking their heads off and passing them around like basketballs.

For some reason, the Fireys (those original, more adult muppets) are the only versions that seem to exist in the historical record now. But a few years after Labyrinth, Henson made some more neon cute and furry versions specifically for musical interludes on Sesame Street. I know they were real, because 4 year-olds don't have LSD flashbacks.

HotWingAgenda:Fano: ITGreen: Oh God, I hated the "yip yip martians." The rest of the list is a stretch though.

The list seems to be "the muppets we could think of that weren't Kermit."

[content6.flixster.com image 246x270]

"60 seconds to midnight, 60 seconds to EAT CEILING!"

That's not a muppet.

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I can understand why some of those B-list muppets on the list were creepy. There's a reason why they weren't A-listers, after all. But I have the yip-yips as the ringtone on my cellular telephoooooooone and it's frickin' awesome.

Elmo should've been on the list, though. He creeps me the fark out, and he stole Grover's spotlight. And I used to be mildly disturbed by the muppets that danced around in music segments by taking their heads off and passing them around like basketballs.

First time I ever did mushrooms we watched Dark Crystal with Mad Season's- Above CD playing. It doesn't sync up, and we weren't trying to see if it did, it's just a good CD. Anyway, that scene in the movie came on and it fit the song "All Alone" that was being played at the time. Blew my farking mind man!

Spatula Porn:So, it is confirmed that "Janice" is in fact a female muppet. I never quite understood what the hell that was supposed to be.

For some reason, as a kid, I always assumed she was male. Don't know why. It was only in re-watching the Muppet Movie as a teen that it hit me she was supposed to be female.

tailormadebassist:THIS freaked me out when I was a kid and still kinda does to this day (36 now). I love African rhythms and the music in general, but the masks always scared me.

"Turn the World Around?" yeah, that was a bit creepy. The Muppet Show got canceled when I was really young, but it went into syndication. It was on at 7:00AM on Saturdays, so I used to get up and watch it by myself (I was a huge Muppets fan). Some of those things really weirded me out because I watching them alone.

What, no "muhnah muhnah" aliens? Oh, they're all cute and goofy while they're singing "do doo do doo do," but try a little bebop scat improv and they're all "stunned look of disapproval" and you lose your groove and well, you just gotta go with "muhnah muhnah" all over again. And then you try again, and it's the same damn look. You give and you give, but nothing is good enough for those pink felt demons. DAMMIT MOM! WHAT DO I NEED TO DO TO MAKE YOU LOVE ME???